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Answer the method of buying socks with mostly borrowed money the method of buying socks with mostly borrowed money
Question What is Buying on margin?
Answer This tax/tariff decreased commerce on both sides of the Atlantic
Question What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Answer Overproduction, Low interest rates, speculation, uneven distribution of wealth
Question What are the causes of the Great Depression?
Answer They invested in stocks, betting that the market would continue to climb so they could make a quick profit
Question What are speculators?
Answer October 29 th, 1929 the event
Question What was Black Tuesday?
Answer Terrible drought and overproduction on the land led to
Question What was the Dust Bowl?
Answer Many people lost their bank savings after the Stock Market crash due to this practice
Question What was a bank run?
Answer 2 movies of the 1930’s, to escape reality
Question What are Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and the Wizard of Oz?
Answer Set up to give the poor a meal
Question What are soup kitchens?
Answer These were intended to prevent bank runs
Question What are Bank Holidays?
Answer Roosevelt’s first step in fighting the depression was to restore confidence in this entity
Question What are the banks?
Answer This program/agency specifically targeted the South, setting up dams and hydroelectric plants
Question What is the TVA?
Answer 2 Agencies aimed at tackling unemployment
Question What are the CCC, WPA, PWA, CWA
Answer Which program was found unconstitutional by the supreme court, farmers were paid to stop planting
Question What is the AAA?
Answer Roosevelt’s policies for ending the Great Depression were known as
Question What is the New Deal?
Answer Serious mistake by FDR, accused to interfere with the Constitutions separation of powers
Question What was the Court –packing plan?
Answer After FDR’s second inauguration, this event happened triggering increased unemployment
Question What was the recession of 1937?
Answer Roosevelt was able to shift African Americans and other minorities to this political party
Question What is the Democratic Party?
Answer To inform and reassure citizens, FDR addressed them directly by
Question What are fireside chats?
Answer 2 nd series of reforms from
Question What was the second new deal?
Answer Share the Wealth
Question Who is Huey Long?
Answer To pay for the New Deal this type of spending
Question What is deficit spending?
Answer Opposed the New Deal, catholic priest, wanted to nationalize the banking system
Question Who was Father Coughlin?
Answer As a result of the New Deal programs the role of this was greatly increased…
Question What is the Federal Government?
Answer 2 programs still in effect today
Question What are Social Security, HUD, TVA, FDIC, SEC,
Answer Wanted their bonus earlier than 1945
Question Who were the WWI veterans, Bonus army
Answer Won a landslide victory due to the prosperity of the 1920’s
Question Who was Herbert Hoover?
Answer Homeless people built communities of shacks called…
Question What are Hoovervilles?
Answer 5% of all American households held 30% of the nation’s income.
Question What is uneven distribution of wealth
Answer Hoover lost the presidential office in 1932 due to these two things…
Question What are the lingering depression and the bonus army